Biden-Harris accused of cooking the books and FBI too

 I&I:

Readers of I&I know all about how the Biden-Harris regime has been fudging jobs numbers to make monthly gains look bigger than they really are. Turns out, it’s been doing the same with crime statistics … this time to make it look like violent crime is on the way down.

RealClearInvestigations dug into the FBI’s data and found that the law enforcement agency had been criminally misreporting crime statistics in a way that just happened to help Biden-Harris look like it’s been tough on crime.

Last fall, for example, the FBI reported that violent crime had dropped by 2.1% in 2022. That number was celebrated by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the press, which said it was proof that Donald Trump was lying about a crime wave.

RealClearInvestigations discovered that the FBI had secretly updated its crime statistics, and instead of showing a 2.1% drop in violent crime, there was a 4.5% increase in 2022.

These weren’t minor revisions in the crime numbers.

Where the FBI originally reported 21,288 fewer cases of violent crime in 2022, its revised number shows a 58,741 increase. Instead of a slight drop in the number of burglaries, the new numbers show an increase of nearly 30,000. Every category was revised sharply upward.

RealClearInvestigations quotes Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, who says that “the huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data.”

This change also let the FBI claim that violent crime dropped 3.5% in 2023 because it was comparing its current crime statistics for 2023 with the secretly revised higher numbers in 2022, once again misleading the public about the true picture of crime in the U.S.,

Kamala Harris bragged about “great progress” and that “we’re not stopping now” and news sites such as USA Today shouted that “Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape.”

But who can trust anything the FBI reports these days? Or any other federal agency?
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If they were selling securities instead of political accomplishments they would be guilty of fraud.  Voters should consider whether they can trust politicians who do this. 

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